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The establishment elite that perform the rites and fashion the weapons of the war on carbon are in danger of slipping into the bad practices of some past...

Yesterday I looked at targets and controls to ensure prudence. I recommended the existing targets for inflation and debt interest. Today I want to look at an...

The worldometer shows us the official figures for virus cases, deaths and population numbers. It seems best to compare cases and deaths per million to get some...

I recently received a demand for £10 to keep open my Congestion Charge account from Transport for London. I have to pay an annual charge of £10 to maintain an...

Allegra Stratton, the official Climate change spokeswoman, has been struggling to find things we could all do to advance their chosen cause of heading to net...

Today I refresh my suggestion that the government during its spending review improves its financial and policy controls over quangos. The long trend to hive off...

If a bus company buys a bus made abroad the impact of the transaction on the UK economy and state finances is very different to a bus company buying a UK made...

I’m all for better schools and health facilities. These services paid for out of taxation need a suitable level of capital spend each year to update older...

I rely a lot on official statistics to read trends and make policy suggestions to government. The problem is the figures themselves are very unreliable and need...